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IS THE TRUTH REALLY OUT THERE?

Before you began investigating, were you sceptical about what happened that day in 1947?

I think my initial attitude was one of not scepticism, but healthy doubt. Being a member of government, having formerly worked for the CIA, I’d seen how information is compartmented. The priorities, from a national security standpoint, didn’t really seem to align with aliens and the possibility of a huge, vast conspiracy. I’ve been involved with some pretty expensive operations and I had never heard about the need to cover something like this up. But maybe I was

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